On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 01:26:06PM +0100, René Mørck wrote: > Det værste der kan ske er vel at flasken "eksploderer" og slukker > branden, da CO2 jo tager ilten. ;-))
It can be quite an explosion. Can't remember how much gas there is in a CO2 bottle, perhaps 6 kg. At normal pressure, a cubic meter of CO2 doesn't weigh many grams. 6kg will expand into one hell of a cloud, and do that quickly, when the bottle bursts. Quite likely blowing out the fire like a candle, by sheer wind velocity. And sending schrapnell from the heavy gas bottle flying in all directions. And possibly blowing off a window, door, or a wall. Not to speak of the effects of displacing all the oxygen in the air... And of the cooling effect of releasing so much gas from uder pressure. Let's hope that when it goes, the fire has been burning for a while, so all who can have evacuated, and are outside drinking a beer. (see, I got this on topic anyway :-) -H -- Heikki Levanto "In Murphy We Turst" heikki (at) lsd (dot) dk _______________________________________________ Brygforum mailing list [email protected] http://www.haandbryg.dk/mailman/listinfo/brygforum To get off the list, send a blank mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
